29 May 2020, 5:00pm EST

Screening and Online Opening Reception Friday, 29 May from 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present Exercises in Ineffability 02, a selection of experimental videos and animations that were produced between February and early May 2020 before and during the peak of the […]

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12 June 2020, 6PM EST

Marginal Utility is proud to present a recorded live Zoom performance by the Philadelphia based artist Taji Ra’oof Nahl. TR7.TV ‘s PolarisNews is a part of Nahl’s online exhibition Upon Second Reading or The Prequels.

This event was the world premiere of TR7.TV ‘s PolarisNews. […]

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11 June 2020, 7:00 PM EST

Please join Marginal Utility Gallery for a guided discussion of Jacques Lacan’s Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism with artist Jim Grilli. Lacan’s essay, a testament to the French psychoanalyst’s investment in philosophical inquiry within and beyond the clinical environment, is […]

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26 July 2019

Friday, 26 July 2019 at 7 PM – 11:59 PM

The Maas Building and 5th Side, 1325 N Randolph St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

Five dollar suggested donation at door.

To celebrate the launch of Emily Guendelsberger’s latest publication “On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and […]

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Open Disussion:

Saturday, 25 May at 2:00pm

Marginal Utility will hold an open discussion on May 25th with artist Omid Shekari using the artist’s latest exhibition as the backdrop. The session will address the topic of military power in the USA and the urgent crises that define our current biopolitical and cultural contexts.

Threats […]

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Performances:

Saturday, 9 February at 3pm

Saturday, 9 March at 3pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present Atleast Three Frames: 1) Introduction: The Blank-Book-To-Be. 2) In A Windowless Corner. 3) Fear and Sleep, a performance by Philadelphia-based artist Jim Grilli.

The performance component of Atleast Three Frames is a monologue delivered by the […]

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15 February 2018

The first session of SCS will be on Thursday February 15, 6:30-8:30pm @ Marginal Utility Gallery-Second Floor, 319 North 11th Street.

The Studies in Contemporary Society (SCS) is a Philadelphia-based discussion and reading group that explores politics, economics, art and social life under the conditions of the contemporary form […]

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Monday, 14 August 2017 6:30-8:30 pm

Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group in Association with Marginal Utility Gallery and New Boone Gallery

 Session 6

The Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group convenes roughly every fortnight at Marginal Utility Gallery to work through salient texts in modern philosophy and contemporary critical […]

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Wednesday, 26 July 2017 6:30-8:30 pm

Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group in Association with Marginal Utility Gallery and New Boone Gallery

Session 5

The Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group convenes roughly every fortnight at Marginal Utility Gallery to work through salient texts in modern philosophy and contemporary critical theory. […]

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Wednesday, 5 July 2017 6:30-8:30 pm

Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group in Association with The Machete Group

The Modern Philosophy and Theory Reading Group convenes roughly every fortnight at the Hill-Physick House (co-hosted by the Marginal Utility Gallery) to work through salient texts in modern philosophy and contemporary critical theory. It […]

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